Noun: bourse
| Singular | bourse |
| Plural | bourses |
Sample Sentences
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In brief, Le Chiffre plans, we believe, to follow the example of most other desperate till-robbers and make good the deficit in his accounts by gambling. The 'Bourse' is too slow. [1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 17:]
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Euronext, the first euro-zone crossborder bourse, makes its debut [2000, “France”, in Country Finance, Economist Intelligence Unit, page 30:]
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
Nouns inflected like bourse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar. See: French Nouns '
bourse', Latin Nouns '
bursa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βύρσα', Danish Nouns '
børs', Swedish Nouns '
börs', German Nouns '
Börse'.